- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chronic Quotes
The strength it takes to live with an ongoing fight.
These quotes speak to the quiet resilience of living with a chronic illness, from redefining what a diagnosis means to hoping for compassion from loved ones. For more on this theme, see Disease quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
We who suffer from chronic Lyme can only ask for our loved ones to try to understand and be compassionate about this invisible disease.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting chronic Lyme disease is probably the fastest way to figure out what and who is real in your life.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thankfully, I found a doctor at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, Scott Hammer, who diagnosed my chronic fatigue as the Epstein-Barr virus, and the medication I took either helped jump-start my immune system or made the virus dormant. I was very lucky.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
- Converting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe UNAIDS' provocative leadership has been critical in addressing the AIDS epidemic and converting it from a death sentence to a chronic health condition.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as the hippocampus, appear to be affected, although exactly how and why remains controversial.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.
- Expectancy
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- Nov 07, 2020
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think anyone who suffers from chronic pain can agree with this - you feel this great significance. What I wanted to capture was that significance, and as a matter of fact I think that's one of the lyrics on 'Conflict,' on the split. I touch on the significance, and really it's a selfish thing, in an offbeat way.
- Financed
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- Nov 07, 2020